How has environmental regulation changed to respond to increasingly complicated environmental problems? In this video RegNet scholar Neil Gunningham traces the journey from 1970s environmental command and control regulation to collaborative environmental governance strategies used today.

► Watch more LL videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/learnliberty
DirtyLaws? That’s the confusing part of EPA regulations. While intended to do good, they end up doing quite the opposite. When a corporation dumps its toxic waste a few miles upstream from your tomato farm – sure, you can go to the EPA, but odds are the offending party has filed all the right permits that allow them to do their dirtiest and you’re screwed. JoinLaw and EconomicsProf. Roger Meiners in this video as he shows how an age-old, British, free-market concept called “Common Law” may be the best remedy – without bureaucratic trash to stink things up.
► Learn More:
Property and Environment Research Center: http://www.perc.org
► http://LearnLiberty.org
► http://twitter.com/LearnLiberty
► http://google.com/+LearnLiberty
► http://facebook.com/LearnLiberty
► http://youtube.com/user/LearnLiberty.

published:29 Jul 2014

views:34693

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) find it harder to comply with environmental legislation than larger companies. In general, the smaller the company, the more difficult it is. Often SMEs are not aware of their environmental obligations - but they are also unaware of the benefits of being green: new market opportunities and cost savings.
The European Commission proposed an Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme (ECAP) to make it easier for SMEs to comply with their obligations and improve their environmental performances.
The following links are mentioned throughout the video:
- ECAP website section dedicated to EU legislation (4’30): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/l...
- ECAP website section dedicated to best practices (12’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/c...
- Environmental footprinting (14’20): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd...
- Environmental Impact Assessment (14’20): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eia/h...
- ECAP website section dedicated to funding opportunities (15’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/f...
- LIFE programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/
- Horizon 2020 programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizo...
- COSME programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/initia...

published:26 Nov 2014

views:3725

Michael Greenstone (MIT) & Hardik Shah (GujaratPollutionBoard) discussed the challenges of environmental regulation in India.First, Greenstone presented on how a change in pollution auditor incentive structures in the state of Gujarat lead to significant reductions in false reporting and actual pollution emissions. Shah then discussed how the Gujarat Pollution Board was able to use this evidence to enact real policy change.

published:25 May 2013

views:511

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief overview of the four levels of government: international; national/Australian; State/Territory; and local government.
The slides for the lecture are available at http://envlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Slides-for-government-in-Australia-9-March-2016.pdf

It's not enough to make laws to protect the environment, if people don't comply with them.
What aids compliance with environmental laws? How best to focus compliance efforts? And what challenges does the future hold?
Richard Macrory C.B.E., barrister and Professor of Environmental Law at University College London, gives his succinct view on the challenges and opportunities for ensuring compliance with environmental laws in this interview for Science for EnvironmentPolicy: http://europa.eu/!rr43bJ
For more information, read the Thematic Issue, Environmental compliance assurance and combatting environmental crime, including an editorial from Professor Macrory: http://europa.eu/!Xu84rD

BOOK REVIEW
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
Edited by John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney
ISBN: 978 0 85793 820 6
EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED
www.e-elgar.com
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: THE 21st CENTURY CHALLENGE
An appreciation by Phillip TaylorMBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond GreenChambers
As editors of this wide-ranging and insightful volume, Professor John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney have compiled an important collection of essays and leaned articles gleaned mainly from a selection of influential and authoritative academic journals from both sides of the Atlantic and worldwide as well.
Published recently by Edward Elgar, the primary focus of the book is on environmental regulation in the United Kingdom, as it compares with other jurisdictions, particularly the United States and within the European Union.
As the editors explain, the papers chosen for inclusion in this volume contain a variety of themes and analyses that shed light on the differences (and similarities) that emerge internationally within the sphere of environmental regulation.
Legal and procedural principles are covered, as well as the range of economic, social and political influences that may-- or may not -- affect the enactment, not to mention the enforcement of environmental regulation, especially in areas where there is a marked conflict between protecting the environment and the desire for economic growth. Part I of the book, for instance, offers a carefully considered examination of the inter-relationship between environmental regulation, sustainable development and climate change.
The book sets out seven further sections which deal variously with such important areas as policy and governance… new technologies and economic development… and human rights.
The final section discusses ‘the twenty-first century challenge’ thereby making an interesting contribution to the debate on how the scholarship of environmental law might advance to meet future needs.
A point that is often stressed is that environmental regulation must be accountable, not to mention enforceable. Neither of these aims is easy to achieve in a world where the most of the environmental pollution of late is produced not so much by the industrialised nations, as by countries in a far less advanced stage of economic development.
As part of the ElgarResearchCollection, this is definitely a book for academics and scholars as well as environmental lawyers who will appreciate its comparative law orientation and emphasis. Also to be appreciated by researchers is the copious footnoting throughout, which contains a wealth of reference sources. In all, the book is a valuable and richly resourced contribution to the literature of environmental law.
The publication date is cited as at 2014.

published:11 Aug 2014

views:68

Many people believe government rules and regulations are the only way to protect the environment. But there are important benefits that properly structured market forces can bring to environmental policy. When the government and markets work together, it leads to effective solutions for sustainability.
For more information, please visit the Policyed page here: https://www.policyed.org/intellections/better-way-preserve-environment/video
Additional Resources:
For more, read Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation, by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal. Their book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. Available here: http://amzn.to/2sYOLuB
Terry Anderson explains the reasoning behind the production of his book, “Free Market Environmentalism for The Next Generation” here: http://hvr.co/2onzp0a
To learn more about property rights and the environment, visit PERC: https://www.perc.org/
For more on saving ocean fisheries with property rights, visit: https://www.perc.org/articles/saving-ocean-fisheries-property-rights
In "Join the Green TeaParty," Terry Anderson explains the Green Tea Party and its policies to help lift the economy and the environment out of a regulatory chaos: http://hvr.co/2s8uMNC
You can also read Terry Anderson's interview with the Epoch Times here: http://bit.ly/2rR3mJr

published:13 Jun 2017

views:206653

Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy
More here: http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/modernizing-business-environmental-regulation-and-protection

Regulatory subjects

The broad category of "environmental law" may be broken down into a number of more specific regulatory subjects. While there is no single agreed-upon taxonomy, the core environmental law regimes address environmental pollution. A related but distinct set of regulatory regimes, now strongly influenced by environmental legal principles, focus on the management of specific natural resources, such as forests, minerals, or fisheries. Other areas, such as environmental impact assessment, may not fit neatly into either category, but are nonetheless important components of environmental law.

Impact assessment

Environmental impact assessment (EA) is the term used for the assessment of the environmental consequences (positive and negative) of a plan, policy, program, or project prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. In this context, the term 'environmental impact assessment' (EIA) is usually used when applied to concrete projects and the term 'strategic environmental assessment' applies to policies, plans and programmes (Fischer, 2016). Environmental assessments may be governed by rules of administrative procedure regarding public participation and documentation of decision making, and may be subject to judicial review.

Regulation creates, limits, constrains a right, creates or limits a duty, or allocates a responsibility. Regulation can take many forms: legal restrictions promulgated by a government authority, contractual obligations that bind many parties (for example, "insurance regulations" that arise out of contracts between insurers and their insureds), self-regulation by an industry such as through a trade association, social regulation (e.g. norms), co-regulation, third-party regulation, certification, accreditation or market regulation. In its legal sense regulation can and should be distinguished from primary legislation (by Parliament of elected legislative body) on the one hand and judge-made law on the other.

Regulation mandated by a state attempts to produce outcomes which might not otherwise occur, produce or prevent outcomes in different places to what might otherwise occur, or produce or prevent outcomes in different timescales than would otherwise occur. In this way, regulations can be seen as implementation artifacts of policy statements. Common examples of regulation include controls on market entries, prices, wages, development approvals, pollution effects, employment for certain people in certain industries, standards of production for certain goods, the military forces and services.

Natural environment

The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species. Climate, weather, and natural resources that affect human survival and economic activity.
The concept of the natural environment can be distinguished by components:

In contrast to the natural environment is the built environment. In such areas where man has fundamentally transformed landscapes such as urban settings and agricultural land conversion, the natural environment is greatly modified and diminished, with a much more simplified human environment largely replacing it. Even events which seem less extreme such as hydroelectric dam construction, or photovoltaic system construction in the desert, the natural environment is substantially altered.

Matt Ridley

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount RidleyDLFRSLFMedSci (born 7 February 1958), known commonly as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist who has written several popular science books. He is also a businessman and a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Ridley is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He has written several science books including The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (1994), Genome (1999), The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010) and The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge (2015). In 2011, he won the Hayek Prize, which "honors the book published within the past two years that best reflects Hayek’s vision of economic and individual liberty." Ridley also gave the Angus Millar Lecture on "scientific heresy" at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 2011. He was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and won the Julian Simon award in March 2012. In 2014 he won the free enterprise award from the Institute of Economic Affairs.

The evolution of environmental regulation

How has environmental regulation changed to respond to increasingly complicated environmental problems? In this video RegNet scholar Neil Gunningham traces the journey from 1970s environmental command and control regulation to collaborative environmental governance strategies used today.

10:00

The EPA: Revolutionizing Environmental Regulation

The EPA: Revolutionizing Environmental Regulation

The EPA: Revolutionizing Environmental Regulation

How Dirty Laws Trash The Environment | Learn Liberty

► Watch more LL videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/learnliberty
DirtyLaws? That’s the confusing part of EPA regulations. While intended to do good, they end up doing quite the opposite. When a corporation dumps its toxic waste a few miles upstream from your tomato farm – sure, you can go to the EPA, but odds are the offending party has filed all the right permits that allow them to do their dirtiest and you’re screwed. JoinLaw and EconomicsProf. Roger Meiners in this video as he shows how an age-old, British, free-market concept called “Common Law” may be the best remedy – without bureaucratic trash to stink things up.
► Learn More:
Property and Environment Research Center: http://www.perc.org
► http://LearnLiberty.org
► http://twitter.com/LearnLiberty
► http://google.com/+LearnLiberty
► http://facebook.com/LearnLiberty
► http://youtube.com/user/LearnLiberty.

16:24

European Environmental Regulation for SMEs

European Environmental Regulation for SMEs

European Environmental Regulation for SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) find it harder to comply with environmental legislation than larger companies. In general, the smaller the company, the more difficult it is. Often SMEs are not aware of their environmental obligations - but they are also unaware of the benefits of being green: new market opportunities and cost savings.
The European Commission proposed an Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme (ECAP) to make it easier for SMEs to comply with their obligations and improve their environmental performances.
The following links are mentioned throughout the video:
- ECAP website section dedicated to EU legislation (4’30): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/l...
- ECAP website section dedicated to best practices (12’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/c...
- Environmental footprinting (14’20): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd...
- Environmental Impact Assessment (14’20): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eia/h...
- ECAP website section dedicated to funding opportunities (15’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/f...
- LIFE programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/
- Horizon 2020 programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizo...
- COSME programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/initia...

Michael Greenstone (MIT) & Hardik Shah (GujaratPollutionBoard) discussed the challenges of environmental regulation in India.First, Greenstone presented on how a change in pollution auditor incentive structures in the state of Gujarat lead to significant reductions in false reporting and actual pollution emissions. Shah then discussed how the Gujarat Pollution Board was able to use this evidence to enact real policy change.

53:39

An introduction to government and environmental regulation in Australia for international students

An introduction to government and environmental regulation in Australia for international students

An introduction to government and environmental regulation in Australia for international students

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief overview of the four levels of government: international; national/Australian; State/Territory; and local government.
The slides for the lecture are available at http://envlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Slides-for-government-in-Australia-9-March-2016.pdf

How to achieve compliance with environmental law?

It's not enough to make laws to protect the environment, if people don't comply with them.
What aids compliance with environmental laws? How best to focus compliance efforts? And what challenges does the future hold?
Richard Macrory C.B.E., barrister and Professor of Environmental Law at University College London, gives his succinct view on the challenges and opportunities for ensuring compliance with environmental laws in this interview for Science for EnvironmentPolicy: http://europa.eu/!rr43bJ
For more information, read the Thematic Issue, Environmental compliance assurance and combatting environmental crime, including an editorial from Professor Macrory: http://europa.eu/!Xu84rD

11:11

Sustainability and Environmental Impact (Legislation & Regulation)

Sustainability and Environmental Impact (Legislation & Regulation)

Sustainability and Environmental Impact (Legislation & Regulation)

Environmental Regulation Long clip

BOOK REVIEW
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
Edited by John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney
ISBN: 978 0 85793 820 6
EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED
www.e-elgar.com
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: THE 21st CENTURY CHALLENGE
An appreciation by Phillip TaylorMBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond GreenChambers
As editors of this wide-ranging and insightful volume, Professor John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney have compiled an important collection of essays and leaned articles gleaned mainly from a selection of influential and authoritative academic journals from both sides of the Atlantic and worldwide as well.
Published recently by Edward Elgar, the primary focus of the book is on environmental regulation in the United Kingdom, as it compares with other jurisdictions, particularly the United States and within the European Union.
As the editors explain, the papers chosen for inclusion in this volume contain a variety of themes and analyses that shed light on the differences (and similarities) that emerge internationally within the sphere of environmental regulation.
Legal and procedural principles are covered, as well as the range of economic, social and political influences that may-- or may not -- affect the enactment, not to mention the enforcement of environmental regulation, especially in areas where there is a marked conflict between protecting the environment and the desire for economic growth. Part I of the book, for instance, offers a carefully considered examination of the inter-relationship between environmental regulation, sustainable development and climate change.
The book sets out seven further sections which deal variously with such important areas as policy and governance… new technologies and economic development… and human rights.
The final section discusses ‘the twenty-first century challenge’ thereby making an interesting contribution to the debate on how the scholarship of environmental law might advance to meet future needs.
A point that is often stressed is that environmental regulation must be accountable, not to mention enforceable. Neither of these aims is easy to achieve in a world where the most of the environmental pollution of late is produced not so much by the industrialised nations, as by countries in a far less advanced stage of economic development.
As part of the ElgarResearchCollection, this is definitely a book for academics and scholars as well as environmental lawyers who will appreciate its comparative law orientation and emphasis. Also to be appreciated by researchers is the copious footnoting throughout, which contains a wealth of reference sources. In all, the book is a valuable and richly resourced contribution to the literature of environmental law.
The publication date is cited as at 2014.

1:28

A Better Way To Preserve The Environment

A Better Way To Preserve The Environment

A Better Way To Preserve The Environment

Many people believe government rules and regulations are the only way to protect the environment. But there are important benefits that properly structured market forces can bring to environmental policy. When the government and markets work together, it leads to effective solutions for sustainability.
For more information, please visit the Policyed page here: https://www.policyed.org/intellections/better-way-preserve-environment/video
Additional Resources:
For more, read Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation, by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal. Their book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. Available here: http://amzn.to/2sYOLuB
Terry Anderson explains the reasoning behind the production of his book, “Free Market Environmentalism for The Next Generation” here: http://hvr.co/2onzp0a
To learn more about property rights and the environment, visit PERC: https://www.perc.org/
For more on saving ocean fisheries with property rights, visit: https://www.perc.org/articles/saving-ocean-fisheries-property-rights
In "Join the Green TeaParty," Terry Anderson explains the Green Tea Party and its policies to help lift the economy and the environment out of a regulatory chaos: http://hvr.co/2s8uMNC
You can also read Terry Anderson's interview with the Epoch Times here: http://bit.ly/2rR3mJr

1:45:23

Modernizing the Business of Environmental Regulation and Protection

Modernizing the Business of Environmental Regulation and Protection

Modernizing the Business of Environmental Regulation and Protection

Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy
More here: http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/modernizing-business-environmental-regulation-and-protection

Case in Point podcast: What’s next for climate policy and environmental regulation?

Case in Point podcast: What’s next for climate policy and environmental regulation?

Case in Point podcast: What’s next for climate policy and environmental regulation?

In this Case in Point podcast, Penn Law’s Cary Coglianese and Bloomberg Law’s DeanScott discuss where the environmental regulatory process may be headed under the Trump administration. Produced by Penn Law in collaboration with Bloomberg Law. For more information and for additional viewing/listening options, go to www.caseinpoint.org.
Case in Point podcast provides smart, informative conversations about the law, society, and culture. By bringing together top scholars with experts on politics, business, health, education, and science, Case in Point gives an in-depth look at how the law touches every part of our lives.

2:11

Environmental Regulation Project

Environmental Regulation Project

Environmental Regulation Project

A brief interview on the importance of Environmental Regulation in the U.S.

6:09

Hearing on "Modernizing the Business of Environmental Regulation and Protection."

Hearing on "Modernizing the Business of Environmental Regulation and Protection."

Hearing on "Modernizing the Business of Environmental Regulation and Protection."

Environmental Regulation (Malen)

The evolution of environmental regulation

How has environmental regulation changed to respond to increasingly complicated environmental problems? In this video RegNet scholar Neil Gunningham traces the journey from 1970s environmental command and control regulation to collaborative environmental governance strategies used today.

published: 20 Jan 2015

The EPA: Revolutionizing Environmental Regulation

How Dirty Laws Trash The Environment | Learn Liberty

► Watch more LL videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/learnliberty
DirtyLaws? That’s the confusing part of EPA regulations. While intended to do good, they end up doing quite the opposite. When a corporation dumps its toxic waste a few miles upstream from your tomato farm – sure, you can go to the EPA, but odds are the offending party has filed all the right permits that allow them to do their dirtiest and you’re screwed. JoinLaw and EconomicsProf. Roger Meiners in this video as he shows how an age-old, British, free-market concept called “Common Law” may be the best remedy – without bureaucratic trash to stink things up.
► Learn More:
Property and Environment Research Center: http://www.perc.org
► http://LearnLiberty.org
► http://twitter.com/LearnLiberty
► http://google.com/+LearnLibe...

published: 29 Jul 2014

European Environmental Regulation for SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) find it harder to comply with environmental legislation than larger companies. In general, the smaller the company, the more difficult it is. Often SMEs are not aware of their environmental obligations - but they are also unaware of the benefits of being green: new market opportunities and cost savings.
The European Commission proposed an Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme (ECAP) to make it easier for SMEs to comply with their obligations and improve their environmental performances.
The following links are mentioned throughout the video:
- ECAP website section dedicated to EU legislation (4’30): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/l...
- ECAP website section dedicated to best practices (12’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/c......

Michael Greenstone (MIT) & Hardik Shah (GujaratPollutionBoard) discussed the challenges of environmental regulation in India.First, Greenstone presented on how a change in pollution auditor incentive structures in the state of Gujarat lead to significant reductions in false reporting and actual pollution emissions. Shah then discussed how the Gujarat Pollution Board was able to use this evidence to enact real policy change.

published: 25 May 2013

An introduction to government and environmental regulation in Australia for international students

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief overview of the four levels of government: international; national/Australian; State/Territory; and local government.
The slides for the lecture are available at http://envlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Slides-for-government-in-Australia-9-March-2016.pdf

How to achieve compliance with environmental law?

It's not enough to make laws to protect the environment, if people don't comply with them.
What aids compliance with environmental laws? How best to focus compliance efforts? And what challenges does the future hold?
Richard Macrory C.B.E., barrister and Professor of Environmental Law at University College London, gives his succinct view on the challenges and opportunities for ensuring compliance with environmental laws in this interview for Science for EnvironmentPolicy: http://europa.eu/!rr43bJ
For more information, read the Thematic Issue, Environmental compliance assurance and combatting environmental crime, including an editorial from Professor Macrory: http://europa.eu/!Xu84rD

published: 23 Nov 2017

Sustainability and Environmental Impact (Legislation & Regulation)

Environmental Regulation Long clip

BOOK REVIEW
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
Edited by John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney
ISBN: 978 0 85793 820 6
EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED
www.e-elgar.com
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: THE 21st CENTURY CHALLENGE
An appreciation by Phillip TaylorMBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond GreenChambers
As editors of this wide-ranging and insightful volume, Professor John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney have compiled an important collection of essays and leaned articles gleaned mainly from a selection of influential and authoritative academic journals from both sides of the Atlantic and worldwide as well.
Published recently by Edward Elgar, the primary focus of the book is on environmental regulation in the United Kingdom, as it compares with other jurisdictions, particularly the Un...

published: 11 Aug 2014

A Better Way To Preserve The Environment

Many people believe government rules and regulations are the only way to protect the environment. But there are important benefits that properly structured market forces can bring to environmental policy. When the government and markets work together, it leads to effective solutions for sustainability.
For more information, please visit the Policyed page here: https://www.policyed.org/intellections/better-way-preserve-environment/video
Additional Resources:
For more, read Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation, by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal. Their book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. Available here: http://amzn.to/2sYOLuB
Terry Anderson explains the reasoning behind the production of...

published: 13 Jun 2017

Modernizing the Business of Environmental Regulation and Protection

Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy
More here: http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/modernizing-business-environmental-regulation-and-protection

Case in Point podcast: What’s next for climate policy and environmental regulation?

In this Case in Point podcast, Penn Law’s Cary Coglianese and Bloomberg Law’s DeanScott discuss where the environmental regulatory process may be headed under the Trump administration. Produced by Penn Law in collaboration with Bloomberg Law. For more information and for additional viewing/listening options, go to www.caseinpoint.org.
Case in Point podcast provides smart, informative conversations about the law, society, and culture. By bringing together top scholars with experts on politics, business, health, education, and science, Case in Point gives an in-depth look at how the law touches every part of our lives.

published: 10 Jan 2017

Environmental Regulation Project

A brief interview on the importance of Environmental Regulation in the U.S.

published: 08 Dec 2013

Hearing on "Modernizing the Business of Environmental Regulation and Protection."

Is Environmental Regulation Damaging the Planet?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/18/Uncommon_Knowledge_Matt_Ridley
AuthorMatt Ridley agrees that carbon dioxide emissions are changing the Earth's climate, though he opposes hasty regulations that may be doing greater ecological and economic harm. "We might find in 50 years' time that we have put a tourniquet around our neck to prevent a nosebleed," says Ridley.
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A former science and technology editor for The Economist magazine, Matt Ridley is a journalist and best-selling author whose books include Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. His most recent book is The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves.
Matt Ridley discusses the evolutionary process of "ideas having sex," calling it the secret behind human progress. He asserts that "barter was...

How has environmental regulation changed to respond to increasingly complicated environmental problems? In this video RegNet scholar Neil Gunningham traces the journey from 1970s environmental command and control regulation to collaborative environmental governance strategies used today.

How has environmental regulation changed to respond to increasingly complicated environmental problems? In this video RegNet scholar Neil Gunningham traces the journey from 1970s environmental command and control regulation to collaborative environmental governance strategies used today.

How Dirty Laws Trash The Environment | Learn Liberty

► Watch more LL videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/learnliberty
DirtyLaws? That’s the confusing part of EPA regulations. While intended to do good, they end ...

► Watch more LL videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/learnliberty
DirtyLaws? That’s the confusing part of EPA regulations. While intended to do good, they end up doing quite the opposite. When a corporation dumps its toxic waste a few miles upstream from your tomato farm – sure, you can go to the EPA, but odds are the offending party has filed all the right permits that allow them to do their dirtiest and you’re screwed. JoinLaw and EconomicsProf. Roger Meiners in this video as he shows how an age-old, British, free-market concept called “Common Law” may be the best remedy – without bureaucratic trash to stink things up.
► Learn More:
Property and Environment Research Center: http://www.perc.org
► http://LearnLiberty.org
► http://twitter.com/LearnLiberty
► http://google.com/+LearnLiberty
► http://facebook.com/LearnLiberty
► http://youtube.com/user/LearnLiberty.

► Watch more LL videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/learnliberty
DirtyLaws? That’s the confusing part of EPA regulations. While intended to do good, they end up doing quite the opposite. When a corporation dumps its toxic waste a few miles upstream from your tomato farm – sure, you can go to the EPA, but odds are the offending party has filed all the right permits that allow them to do their dirtiest and you’re screwed. JoinLaw and EconomicsProf. Roger Meiners in this video as he shows how an age-old, British, free-market concept called “Common Law” may be the best remedy – without bureaucratic trash to stink things up.
► Learn More:
Property and Environment Research Center: http://www.perc.org
► http://LearnLiberty.org
► http://twitter.com/LearnLiberty
► http://google.com/+LearnLiberty
► http://facebook.com/LearnLiberty
► http://youtube.com/user/LearnLiberty.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) find it harder to comply with environmental legislation than larger companies. In general, the smaller the company, the more difficult it is. Often SMEs are not aware of their environmental obligations - but they are also unaware of the benefits of being green: new market opportunities and cost savings.
The European Commission proposed an Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme (ECAP) to make it easier for SMEs to comply with their obligations and improve their environmental performances.
The following links are mentioned throughout the video:
- ECAP website section dedicated to EU legislation (4’30): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/l...
- ECAP website section dedicated to best practices (12’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/c...
- Environmental footprinting (14’20): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd...
- Environmental Impact Assessment (14’20): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eia/h...
- ECAP website section dedicated to funding opportunities (15’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/f...
- LIFE programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/
- Horizon 2020 programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizo...
- COSME programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/initia...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) find it harder to comply with environmental legislation than larger companies. In general, the smaller the company, the more difficult it is. Often SMEs are not aware of their environmental obligations - but they are also unaware of the benefits of being green: new market opportunities and cost savings.
The European Commission proposed an Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme (ECAP) to make it easier for SMEs to comply with their obligations and improve their environmental performances.
The following links are mentioned throughout the video:
- ECAP website section dedicated to EU legislation (4’30): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/l...
- ECAP website section dedicated to best practices (12’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/c...
- Environmental footprinting (14’20): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd...
- Environmental Impact Assessment (14’20): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eia/h...
- ECAP website section dedicated to funding opportunities (15’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/f...
- LIFE programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/
- Horizon 2020 programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizo...
- COSME programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/initia...

Michael Greenstone (MIT) & Hardik Shah (GujaratPollutionBoard) discussed the challenges of environmental regulation in India.First, Greenstone presented on how a change in pollution auditor incentive structures in the state of Gujarat lead to significant reductions in false reporting and actual pollution emissions. Shah then discussed how the Gujarat Pollution Board was able to use this evidence to enact real policy change.

Michael Greenstone (MIT) & Hardik Shah (GujaratPollutionBoard) discussed the challenges of environmental regulation in India.First, Greenstone presented on how a change in pollution auditor incentive structures in the state of Gujarat lead to significant reductions in false reporting and actual pollution emissions. Shah then discussed how the Gujarat Pollution Board was able to use this evidence to enact real policy change.

An introduction to government and environmental regulation in Australia for international students

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief ov...

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief overview of the four levels of government: international; national/Australian; State/Territory; and local government.
The slides for the lecture are available at http://envlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Slides-for-government-in-Australia-9-March-2016.pdf

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief overview of the four levels of government: international; national/Australian; State/Territory; and local government.
The slides for the lecture are available at http://envlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Slides-for-government-in-Australia-9-March-2016.pdf

How to achieve compliance with environmental law?

It's not enough to make laws to protect the environment, if people don't comply with them.
What aids compliance with environmental laws? How best to focus comp...

It's not enough to make laws to protect the environment, if people don't comply with them.
What aids compliance with environmental laws? How best to focus compliance efforts? And what challenges does the future hold?
Richard Macrory C.B.E., barrister and Professor of Environmental Law at University College London, gives his succinct view on the challenges and opportunities for ensuring compliance with environmental laws in this interview for Science for EnvironmentPolicy: http://europa.eu/!rr43bJ
For more information, read the Thematic Issue, Environmental compliance assurance and combatting environmental crime, including an editorial from Professor Macrory: http://europa.eu/!Xu84rD

It's not enough to make laws to protect the environment, if people don't comply with them.
What aids compliance with environmental laws? How best to focus compliance efforts? And what challenges does the future hold?
Richard Macrory C.B.E., barrister and Professor of Environmental Law at University College London, gives his succinct view on the challenges and opportunities for ensuring compliance with environmental laws in this interview for Science for EnvironmentPolicy: http://europa.eu/!rr43bJ
For more information, read the Thematic Issue, Environmental compliance assurance and combatting environmental crime, including an editorial from Professor Macrory: http://europa.eu/!Xu84rD

BOOK REVIEW
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
Edited by John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney
ISBN: 978 0 85793 820 6
EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED
www.e-elgar.com
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: THE 21st CENTURY CHALLENGE
An appreciation by Phillip TaylorMBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond GreenChambers
As editors of this wide-ranging and insightful volume, Professor John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney have compiled an important collection of essays and leaned articles gleaned mainly from a selection of influential and authoritative academic journals from both sides of the Atlantic and worldwide as well.
Published recently by Edward Elgar, the primary focus of the book is on environmental regulation in the United Kingdom, as it compares with other jurisdictions, particularly the United States and within the European Union.
As the editors explain, the papers chosen for inclusion in this volume contain a variety of themes and analyses that shed light on the differences (and similarities) that emerge internationally within the sphere of environmental regulation.
Legal and procedural principles are covered, as well as the range of economic, social and political influences that may-- or may not -- affect the enactment, not to mention the enforcement of environmental regulation, especially in areas where there is a marked conflict between protecting the environment and the desire for economic growth. Part I of the book, for instance, offers a carefully considered examination of the inter-relationship between environmental regulation, sustainable development and climate change.
The book sets out seven further sections which deal variously with such important areas as policy and governance… new technologies and economic development… and human rights.
The final section discusses ‘the twenty-first century challenge’ thereby making an interesting contribution to the debate on how the scholarship of environmental law might advance to meet future needs.
A point that is often stressed is that environmental regulation must be accountable, not to mention enforceable. Neither of these aims is easy to achieve in a world where the most of the environmental pollution of late is produced not so much by the industrialised nations, as by countries in a far less advanced stage of economic development.
As part of the ElgarResearchCollection, this is definitely a book for academics and scholars as well as environmental lawyers who will appreciate its comparative law orientation and emphasis. Also to be appreciated by researchers is the copious footnoting throughout, which contains a wealth of reference sources. In all, the book is a valuable and richly resourced contribution to the literature of environmental law.
The publication date is cited as at 2014.

BOOK REVIEW
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
Edited by John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney
ISBN: 978 0 85793 820 6
EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED
www.e-elgar.com
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: THE 21st CENTURY CHALLENGE
An appreciation by Phillip TaylorMBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond GreenChambers
As editors of this wide-ranging and insightful volume, Professor John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney have compiled an important collection of essays and leaned articles gleaned mainly from a selection of influential and authoritative academic journals from both sides of the Atlantic and worldwide as well.
Published recently by Edward Elgar, the primary focus of the book is on environmental regulation in the United Kingdom, as it compares with other jurisdictions, particularly the United States and within the European Union.
As the editors explain, the papers chosen for inclusion in this volume contain a variety of themes and analyses that shed light on the differences (and similarities) that emerge internationally within the sphere of environmental regulation.
Legal and procedural principles are covered, as well as the range of economic, social and political influences that may-- or may not -- affect the enactment, not to mention the enforcement of environmental regulation, especially in areas where there is a marked conflict between protecting the environment and the desire for economic growth. Part I of the book, for instance, offers a carefully considered examination of the inter-relationship between environmental regulation, sustainable development and climate change.
The book sets out seven further sections which deal variously with such important areas as policy and governance… new technologies and economic development… and human rights.
The final section discusses ‘the twenty-first century challenge’ thereby making an interesting contribution to the debate on how the scholarship of environmental law might advance to meet future needs.
A point that is often stressed is that environmental regulation must be accountable, not to mention enforceable. Neither of these aims is easy to achieve in a world where the most of the environmental pollution of late is produced not so much by the industrialised nations, as by countries in a far less advanced stage of economic development.
As part of the ElgarResearchCollection, this is definitely a book for academics and scholars as well as environmental lawyers who will appreciate its comparative law orientation and emphasis. Also to be appreciated by researchers is the copious footnoting throughout, which contains a wealth of reference sources. In all, the book is a valuable and richly resourced contribution to the literature of environmental law.
The publication date is cited as at 2014.

A Better Way To Preserve The Environment

Many people believe government rules and regulations are the only way to protect the environment. But there are important benefits that properly structured mark...

Many people believe government rules and regulations are the only way to protect the environment. But there are important benefits that properly structured market forces can bring to environmental policy. When the government and markets work together, it leads to effective solutions for sustainability.
For more information, please visit the Policyed page here: https://www.policyed.org/intellections/better-way-preserve-environment/video
Additional Resources:
For more, read Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation, by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal. Their book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. Available here: http://amzn.to/2sYOLuB
Terry Anderson explains the reasoning behind the production of his book, “Free Market Environmentalism for The Next Generation” here: http://hvr.co/2onzp0a
To learn more about property rights and the environment, visit PERC: https://www.perc.org/
For more on saving ocean fisheries with property rights, visit: https://www.perc.org/articles/saving-ocean-fisheries-property-rights
In "Join the Green TeaParty," Terry Anderson explains the Green Tea Party and its policies to help lift the economy and the environment out of a regulatory chaos: http://hvr.co/2s8uMNC
You can also read Terry Anderson's interview with the Epoch Times here: http://bit.ly/2rR3mJr

Many people believe government rules and regulations are the only way to protect the environment. But there are important benefits that properly structured market forces can bring to environmental policy. When the government and markets work together, it leads to effective solutions for sustainability.
For more information, please visit the Policyed page here: https://www.policyed.org/intellections/better-way-preserve-environment/video
Additional Resources:
For more, read Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation, by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal. Their book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. Available here: http://amzn.to/2sYOLuB
Terry Anderson explains the reasoning behind the production of his book, “Free Market Environmentalism for The Next Generation” here: http://hvr.co/2onzp0a
To learn more about property rights and the environment, visit PERC: https://www.perc.org/
For more on saving ocean fisheries with property rights, visit: https://www.perc.org/articles/saving-ocean-fisheries-property-rights
In "Join the Green TeaParty," Terry Anderson explains the Green Tea Party and its policies to help lift the economy and the environment out of a regulatory chaos: http://hvr.co/2s8uMNC
You can also read Terry Anderson's interview with the Epoch Times here: http://bit.ly/2rR3mJr

In this Case in Point podcast, Penn Law’s Cary Coglianese and Bloomberg Law’s DeanScott discuss where the environmental regulatory process may be headed under the Trump administration. Produced by Penn Law in collaboration with Bloomberg Law. For more information and for additional viewing/listening options, go to www.caseinpoint.org.
Case in Point podcast provides smart, informative conversations about the law, society, and culture. By bringing together top scholars with experts on politics, business, health, education, and science, Case in Point gives an in-depth look at how the law touches every part of our lives.

In this Case in Point podcast, Penn Law’s Cary Coglianese and Bloomberg Law’s DeanScott discuss where the environmental regulatory process may be headed under the Trump administration. Produced by Penn Law in collaboration with Bloomberg Law. For more information and for additional viewing/listening options, go to www.caseinpoint.org.
Case in Point podcast provides smart, informative conversations about the law, society, and culture. By bringing together top scholars with experts on politics, business, health, education, and science, Case in Point gives an in-depth look at how the law touches every part of our lives.

Michael Greenstone (MIT) & Hardik Shah (GujaratPollutionBoard) discussed the challenges of environmental regulation in India.First, Greenstone presented on how a change in pollution auditor incentive structures in the state of Gujarat lead to significant reductions in false reporting and actual pollution emissions. Shah then discussed how the Gujarat Pollution Board was able to use this evidence to enact real policy change.

Lecture_39 Environmental Laws

An introduction to government and environmental regulation in Australia for international students

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief overview of the four levels of government: international; national/Australian; State/Territory; and local government.
The slides for the lecture are available at http://envlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Slides-for-government-in-Australia-9-March-2016.pdf

Case in Point podcast: What’s next for climate policy and environmental regulation?

In this Case in Point podcast, Penn Law’s Cary Coglianese and Bloomberg Law’s DeanScott discuss where the environmental regulatory process may be headed under the Trump administration. Produced by Penn Law in collaboration with Bloomberg Law. For more information and for additional viewing/listening options, go to www.caseinpoint.org.
Case in Point podcast provides smart, informative conversations about the law, society, and culture. By bringing together top scholars with experts on politics, business, health, education, and science, Case in Point gives an in-depth look at how the law touches every part of our lives.

published: 10 Jan 2017

Environmental Regulation and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

The Neurobiology of Emotion Regulation Development and the Role of the Early Environment

Nim Tottenham, associate professor of psychology at Columbia University, gave this talk at Neurons to Neighborhoods.
Carnegie Mellon University’s BrainHub brought some of the nation’s leading early childhood development experts together with local and state policymakers and practitioners for its first Neurons to Neighborhoods community outreach event.
With funding support from The Heinz Endowments, the event was designed to help the community of early care and education providers, government officials and other specialists learn how to effectively understand the latest early brain development research and apply this evidence-based information to their everyday practice and policy-making decisions.
Learn more at www.cmu.edu/brainhub.

Investor Influence as Cross-Border Environmental Regulation

This Seminar titled "The Search for Principles of Transnational Environmental Regulation" was given by Dr Veerle Heyvaert (LSE) on 18 January 2018 as part of the Law, Environment and DevelopmentCentre (LEDC) seminar series at SOAS University of London.
You can find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/s9pgif
The prolific growth of transnational environmental regulatory frameworks raises a host of pressing questions about the existence and content of binding principles to which the exercise of transnational regulatory authority should be subjected in order to be legitimate. Most important among these is the core question whether transnational environmental regulation (TER) recognises and respects an overarching set of shared principles that guide decision making under its auspices...

Michael Greenstone (MIT) & Hardik Shah (GujaratPollutionBoard) discussed the challenges of environmental regulation in India.First, Greenstone presented on how a change in pollution auditor incentive structures in the state of Gujarat lead to significant reductions in false reporting and actual pollution emissions. Shah then discussed how the Gujarat Pollution Board was able to use this evidence to enact real policy change.

Michael Greenstone (MIT) & Hardik Shah (GujaratPollutionBoard) discussed the challenges of environmental regulation in India.First, Greenstone presented on how a change in pollution auditor incentive structures in the state of Gujarat lead to significant reductions in false reporting and actual pollution emissions. Shah then discussed how the Gujarat Pollution Board was able to use this evidence to enact real policy change.

An introduction to government and environmental regulation in Australia for international students

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief ov...

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief overview of the four levels of government: international; national/Australian; State/Territory; and local government.
The slides for the lecture are available at http://envlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Slides-for-government-in-Australia-9-March-2016.pdf

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief overview of the four levels of government: international; national/Australian; State/Territory; and local government.
The slides for the lecture are available at http://envlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Slides-for-government-in-Australia-9-March-2016.pdf

In this Case in Point podcast, Penn Law’s Cary Coglianese and Bloomberg Law’s DeanScott discuss where the environmental regulatory process may be headed under the Trump administration. Produced by Penn Law in collaboration with Bloomberg Law. For more information and for additional viewing/listening options, go to www.caseinpoint.org.
Case in Point podcast provides smart, informative conversations about the law, society, and culture. By bringing together top scholars with experts on politics, business, health, education, and science, Case in Point gives an in-depth look at how the law touches every part of our lives.

In this Case in Point podcast, Penn Law’s Cary Coglianese and Bloomberg Law’s DeanScott discuss where the environmental regulatory process may be headed under the Trump administration. Produced by Penn Law in collaboration with Bloomberg Law. For more information and for additional viewing/listening options, go to www.caseinpoint.org.
Case in Point podcast provides smart, informative conversations about the law, society, and culture. By bringing together top scholars with experts on politics, business, health, education, and science, Case in Point gives an in-depth look at how the law touches every part of our lives.

The North AmericanFree Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada -- United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. In terms of combined GDP of its members, as of 2010 the trade bloc is the largest in the world.
NAFTA has two supplements: the North AmericanAgreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC).
Securing U.S. congressional approval for NAFTA would have been impossible without addressing public concerns about NAFTA's environmental impact. The Clinton administration negotiated a side agreement on the environment with Canada and Mexico, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), which led to the creation of theCommission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in 1994. To alleviate concerns that NAFTA, the first regional trade agreement between a developing country and two developed countries, would have negative environmental impacts, the CEC was given a mandate to conduct ongoing ex post environmental assessment of NAFTA.
In response to this mandate, the CEC created a framework for conducting environmental analysis of NAFTA, one of the first ex post frameworks for the environmental assessment of trade liberalization. The framework was designed to produce a focused and systematic body of evidence with respect to the initial hypotheses about NAFTA and the environment, such as the concern that NAFTA would create a "race to the bottom" in environmental regulation among the three countries, or the hope that NAFTA would pressure governments to increase their environmental protection mechanisms. The CEC has held four symposia using this framework to evaluate the environmental impacts of NAFTA and has commissioned 47 papers on this subject. In keeping with the CEC's overall strategy of transparency and public involvement, the CEC commissioned these papers from leading independent experts.
Overall, none of the initial hypotheses were confirmed.[citation needed] NAFTA did not inherently present a systemic threat to the North American environment, as was originally feared, apart from potentially the ISDS provisions of Ch 11. NAFTA-related environmental threats instead occurred in specific areas where government environmental policy, infrastructure, or mechanisms, were unprepared for the increasing scale of production under trade liberalization. In some cases, environmental policy was neglected in the wake of trade liberalization; in other cases, NAFTA's measures for investment protection, such as Chapter 11, and measures against non-tariff trade barriers, threatened to discourage more vigorous environmental policy. The most serious overall increases in pollution due to NAFTA were found in the base metals sector, the Mexican petroleum sector, and the transportation equipment sector in the United States and Mexico, but not in Canada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTA#Environment

The North AmericanFree Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada -- United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. In terms of combined GDP of its members, as of 2010 the trade bloc is the largest in the world.
NAFTA has two supplements: the North AmericanAgreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC).
Securing U.S. congressional approval for NAFTA would have been impossible without addressing public concerns about NAFTA's environmental impact. The Clinton administration negotiated a side agreement on the environment with Canada and Mexico, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), which led to the creation of theCommission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in 1994. To alleviate concerns that NAFTA, the first regional trade agreement between a developing country and two developed countries, would have negative environmental impacts, the CEC was given a mandate to conduct ongoing ex post environmental assessment of NAFTA.
In response to this mandate, the CEC created a framework for conducting environmental analysis of NAFTA, one of the first ex post frameworks for the environmental assessment of trade liberalization. The framework was designed to produce a focused and systematic body of evidence with respect to the initial hypotheses about NAFTA and the environment, such as the concern that NAFTA would create a "race to the bottom" in environmental regulation among the three countries, or the hope that NAFTA would pressure governments to increase their environmental protection mechanisms. The CEC has held four symposia using this framework to evaluate the environmental impacts of NAFTA and has commissioned 47 papers on this subject. In keeping with the CEC's overall strategy of transparency and public involvement, the CEC commissioned these papers from leading independent experts.
Overall, none of the initial hypotheses were confirmed.[citation needed] NAFTA did not inherently present a systemic threat to the North American environment, as was originally feared, apart from potentially the ISDS provisions of Ch 11. NAFTA-related environmental threats instead occurred in specific areas where government environmental policy, infrastructure, or mechanisms, were unprepared for the increasing scale of production under trade liberalization. In some cases, environmental policy was neglected in the wake of trade liberalization; in other cases, NAFTA's measures for investment protection, such as Chapter 11, and measures against non-tariff trade barriers, threatened to discourage more vigorous environmental policy. The most serious overall increases in pollution due to NAFTA were found in the base metals sector, the Mexican petroleum sector, and the transportation equipment sector in the United States and Mexico, but not in Canada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTA#Environment

Nim Tottenham, associate professor of psychology at Columbia University, gave this talk at Neurons to Neighborhoods.
Carnegie Mellon University’s BrainHub brought some of the nation’s leading early childhood development experts together with local and state policymakers and practitioners for its first Neurons to Neighborhoods community outreach event.
With funding support from The Heinz Endowments, the event was designed to help the community of early care and education providers, government officials and other specialists learn how to effectively understand the latest early brain development research and apply this evidence-based information to their everyday practice and policy-making decisions.
Learn more at www.cmu.edu/brainhub.

Nim Tottenham, associate professor of psychology at Columbia University, gave this talk at Neurons to Neighborhoods.
Carnegie Mellon University’s BrainHub brought some of the nation’s leading early childhood development experts together with local and state policymakers and practitioners for its first Neurons to Neighborhoods community outreach event.
With funding support from The Heinz Endowments, the event was designed to help the community of early care and education providers, government officials and other specialists learn how to effectively understand the latest early brain development research and apply this evidence-based information to their everyday practice and policy-making decisions.
Learn more at www.cmu.edu/brainhub.

This Seminar titled "The Search for Principles of Transnational Environmental Regulation" was given by Dr Veerle Heyvaert (LSE) on 18 January 2018 as part of the Law, Environment and DevelopmentCentre (LEDC) seminar series at SOAS University of London.
You can find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/s9pgif
The prolific growth of transnational environmental regulatory frameworks raises a host of pressing questions about the existence and content of binding principles to which the exercise of transnational regulatory authority should be subjected in order to be legitimate. Most important among these is the core question whether transnational environmental regulation (TER) recognises and respects an overarching set of shared principles that guide decision making under its auspices. Relatedly, if such shared principles do exist, how can they be identified?
'The Search for Principles of Transnational Environmental Regulation' attempts to answer these questions and argues that, while the extensive range and diversity of TER do not allow for a fixed set of legal principles to be cast as definitive, a number of clear trends can nonetheless be discerned. These include a growing prominence of procedural rights as environmental principles, which development has been keenly observed within academic circles and beyond. Equally relevant, however, are two additional but less frequently discussed developments. The first concerns the increasing incorporation of an expectation of progression in both public and private TER. The second is a growing tendency to develop and rely on managerialised interpretations of governance principles. The latter trend initiated in private TER, but is arguably spreading toward the public sphere. Together, the three developments are likely to affect the normative impact of legal principles for transnational governance in a fundamental way.
Veerle Heyvaert is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the London School of Economics where she teaches environmental law and European law. She has an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (It). In 1998-1999, she was the inaugural Sir Peter North Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Keble College, Oxford. She has published extensively on issues of transnational environmental law and risk regulation, including recent articles on the emergence of hybrid norms in the European Journal of International Law (2009) and the globalisation of chemicals regulation in the Journal of Law and Society (2009).

This Seminar titled "The Search for Principles of Transnational Environmental Regulation" was given by Dr Veerle Heyvaert (LSE) on 18 January 2018 as part of the Law, Environment and DevelopmentCentre (LEDC) seminar series at SOAS University of London.
You can find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/s9pgif
The prolific growth of transnational environmental regulatory frameworks raises a host of pressing questions about the existence and content of binding principles to which the exercise of transnational regulatory authority should be subjected in order to be legitimate. Most important among these is the core question whether transnational environmental regulation (TER) recognises and respects an overarching set of shared principles that guide decision making under its auspices. Relatedly, if such shared principles do exist, how can they be identified?
'The Search for Principles of Transnational Environmental Regulation' attempts to answer these questions and argues that, while the extensive range and diversity of TER do not allow for a fixed set of legal principles to be cast as definitive, a number of clear trends can nonetheless be discerned. These include a growing prominence of procedural rights as environmental principles, which development has been keenly observed within academic circles and beyond. Equally relevant, however, are two additional but less frequently discussed developments. The first concerns the increasing incorporation of an expectation of progression in both public and private TER. The second is a growing tendency to develop and rely on managerialised interpretations of governance principles. The latter trend initiated in private TER, but is arguably spreading toward the public sphere. Together, the three developments are likely to affect the normative impact of legal principles for transnational governance in a fundamental way.
Veerle Heyvaert is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the London School of Economics where she teaches environmental law and European law. She has an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (It). In 1998-1999, she was the inaugural Sir Peter North Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Keble College, Oxford. She has published extensively on issues of transnational environmental law and risk regulation, including recent articles on the emergence of hybrid norms in the European Journal of International Law (2009) and the globalisation of chemicals regulation in the Journal of Law and Society (2009).

The evolution of environmental regulation

How has environmental regulation changed to respond to increasingly complicated environmental problems? In this video RegNet scholar Neil Gunningham traces the journey from 1970s environmental command and control regulation to collaborative environmental governance strategies used today.

How Dirty Laws Trash The Environment | Learn Liberty

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DirtyLaws? That’s the confusing part of EPA regulations. While intended to do good, they end up doing quite the opposite. When a corporation dumps its toxic waste a few miles upstream from your tomato farm – sure, you can go to the EPA, but odds are the offending party has filed all the right permits that allow them to do their dirtiest and you’re screwed. JoinLaw and EconomicsProf. Roger Meiners in this video as he shows how an age-old, British, free-market concept called “Common Law” may be the best remedy – without bureaucratic trash to stink things up.
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16:24

European Environmental Regulation for SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) find it harder to comply with environmental legi...

European Environmental Regulation for SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) find it harder to comply with environmental legislation than larger companies. In general, the smaller the company, the more difficult it is. Often SMEs are not aware of their environmental obligations - but they are also unaware of the benefits of being green: new market opportunities and cost savings.
The European Commission proposed an Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme (ECAP) to make it easier for SMEs to comply with their obligations and improve their environmental performances.
The following links are mentioned throughout the video:
- ECAP website section dedicated to EU legislation (4’30): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/l...
- ECAP website section dedicated to best practices (12’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/c...
- Environmental footprinting (14’20): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd...
- Environmental Impact Assessment (14’20): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eia/h...
- ECAP website section dedicated to funding opportunities (15’50): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/f...
- LIFE programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/
- Horizon 2020 programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizo...
- COSME programme (16’00): http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/initia...

Michael Greenstone (MIT) & Hardik Shah (GujaratPollutionBoard) discussed the challenges of environmental regulation in India.First, Greenstone presented on how a change in pollution auditor incentive structures in the state of Gujarat lead to significant reductions in false reporting and actual pollution emissions. Shah then discussed how the Gujarat Pollution Board was able to use this evidence to enact real policy change.

53:39

An introduction to government and environmental regulation in Australia for international students

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmen...

An introduction to government and environmental regulation in Australia for international students

This 53 minute lecture is aimed at international students studying planning and environmental courses at a university level in Australia. It provides a brief overview of the four levels of government: international; national/Australian; State/Territory; and local government.
The slides for the lecture are available at http://envlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Slides-for-government-in-Australia-9-March-2016.pdf

50:21

2. Principles & Strategies in Environmental Law

Environmental Politics and Law (EVST 255)
The United States' fragmented, piecemeal appr...

How to achieve compliance with environmental law?

It's not enough to make laws to protect the environment, if people don't comply with them.
What aids compliance with environmental laws? How best to focus compliance efforts? And what challenges does the future hold?
Richard Macrory C.B.E., barrister and Professor of Environmental Law at University College London, gives his succinct view on the challenges and opportunities for ensuring compliance with environmental laws in this interview for Science for EnvironmentPolicy: http://europa.eu/!rr43bJ
For more information, read the Thematic Issue, Environmental compliance assurance and combatting environmental crime, including an editorial from Professor Macrory: http://europa.eu/!Xu84rD

Environmental Regulation Long clip

BOOK REVIEW
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
Edited by John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney
ISBN: 978 0 85793 820 6
EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED
www.e-elgar.com
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: THE 21st CENTURY CHALLENGE
An appreciation by Phillip TaylorMBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond GreenChambers
As editors of this wide-ranging and insightful volume, Professor John McEldowney and Sharron McEldowney have compiled an important collection of essays and leaned articles gleaned mainly from a selection of influential and authoritative academic journals from both sides of the Atlantic and worldwide as well.
Published recently by Edward Elgar, the primary focus of the book is on environmental regulation in the United Kingdom, as it compares with other jurisdictions, particularly the United States and within the European Union.
As the editors explain, the papers chosen for inclusion in this volume contain a variety of themes and analyses that shed light on the differences (and similarities) that emerge internationally within the sphere of environmental regulation.
Legal and procedural principles are covered, as well as the range of economic, social and political influences that may-- or may not -- affect the enactment, not to mention the enforcement of environmental regulation, especially in areas where there is a marked conflict between protecting the environment and the desire for economic growth. Part I of the book, for instance, offers a carefully considered examination of the inter-relationship between environmental regulation, sustainable development and climate change.
The book sets out seven further sections which deal variously with such important areas as policy and governance… new technologies and economic development… and human rights.
The final section discusses ‘the twenty-first century challenge’ thereby making an interesting contribution to the debate on how the scholarship of environmental law might advance to meet future needs.
A point that is often stressed is that environmental regulation must be accountable, not to mention enforceable. Neither of these aims is easy to achieve in a world where the most of the environmental pollution of late is produced not so much by the industrialised nations, as by countries in a far less advanced stage of economic development.
As part of the ElgarResearchCollection, this is definitely a book for academics and scholars as well as environmental lawyers who will appreciate its comparative law orientation and emphasis. Also to be appreciated by researchers is the copious footnoting throughout, which contains a wealth of reference sources. In all, the book is a valuable and richly resourced contribution to the literature of environmental law.
The publication date is cited as at 2014.

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A Better Way To Preserve The Environment

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A Better Way To Preserve The Environment

Many people believe government rules and regulations are the only way to protect the environment. But there are important benefits that properly structured market forces can bring to environmental policy. When the government and markets work together, it leads to effective solutions for sustainability.
For more information, please visit the Policyed page here: https://www.policyed.org/intellections/better-way-preserve-environment/video
Additional Resources:
For more, read Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation, by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal. Their book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. Available here: http://amzn.to/2sYOLuB
Terry Anderson explains the reasoning behind the production of his book, “Free Market Environmentalism for The Next Generation” here: http://hvr.co/2onzp0a
To learn more about property rights and the environment, visit PERC: https://www.perc.org/
For more on saving ocean fisheries with property rights, visit: https://www.perc.org/articles/saving-ocean-fisheries-property-rights
In "Join the Green TeaParty," Terry Anderson explains the Green Tea Party and its policies to help lift the economy and the environment out of a regulatory chaos: http://hvr.co/2s8uMNC
You can also read Terry Anderson's interview with the Epoch Times here: http://bit.ly/2rR3mJr

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Modernizing the Business of Environmental Regulation and Protection

Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy
More here: http://energycommerce.house.gov/he...

Case in Point podcast: What’s next for climate policy and environmental regulation?

In this Case in Point podcast, Penn Law’s Cary Coglianese and Bloomberg Law’s DeanScott discuss where the environmental regulatory process may be headed under the Trump administration. Produced by Penn Law in collaboration with Bloomberg Law. For more information and for additional viewing/listening options, go to www.caseinpoint.org.
Case in Point podcast provides smart, informative conversations about the law, society, and culture. By bringing together top scholars with experts on politics, business, health, education, and science, Case in Point gives an in-depth look at how the law touches every part of our lives.

Regulatory subjects

The broad category of "environmental law" may be broken down into a number of more specific regulatory subjects. While there is no single agreed-upon taxonomy, the core environmental law regimes address environmental pollution. A related but distinct set of regulatory regimes, now strongly influenced by environmental legal principles, focus on the management of specific natural resources, such as forests, minerals, or fisheries. Other areas, such as environmental impact assessment, may not fit neatly into either category, but are nonetheless important components of environmental law.

Impact assessment

Environmental impact assessment (EA) is the term used for the assessment of the environmental consequences (positive and negative) of a plan, policy, program, or project prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. In this context, the term 'environmental impact assessment' (EIA) is usually used when applied to concrete projects and the term 'strategic environmental assessment' applies to policies, plans and programmes (Fischer, 2016). Environmental assessments may be governed by rules of administrative procedure regarding public participation and documentation of decision making, and may be subject to judicial review.

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2. Principles & Strategies in Environmental Law

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Environmental Regulation and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

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Environmental Regulation and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

The North AmericanFree Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada -- United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. In terms of combined GDP of its members, as of 2010 the trade bloc is the largest in the world.
NAFTA has two supplements: the North AmericanAgreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC).
Securing U.S. congressional approval for NAFTA would have been impossible without addressing public concerns about NAFTA's environmental impact. The Clinton administration negotiated a side agreement on the environment with Canada and Mexico, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), which led to the creation of theCommission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in 1994. To alleviate concerns that NAFTA, the first regional trade agreement between a developing country and two developed countries, would have negative environmental impacts, the CEC was given a mandate to conduct ongoing ex post environmental assessment of NAFTA.
In response to this mandate, the CEC created a framework for conducting environmental analysis of NAFTA, one of the first ex post frameworks for the environmental assessment of trade liberalization. The framework was designed to produce a focused and systematic body of evidence with respect to the initial hypotheses about NAFTA and the environment, such as the concern that NAFTA would create a "race to the bottom" in environmental regulation among the three countries, or the hope that NAFTA would pressure governments to increase their environmental protection mechanisms. The CEC has held four symposia using this framework to evaluate the environmental impacts of NAFTA and has commissioned 47 papers on this subject. In keeping with the CEC's overall strategy of transparency and public involvement, the CEC commissioned these papers from leading independent experts.
Overall, none of the initial hypotheses were confirmed.[citation needed] NAFTA did not inherently present a systemic threat to the North American environment, as was originally feared, apart from potentially the ISDS provisions of Ch 11. NAFTA-related environmental threats instead occurred in specific areas where government environmental policy, infrastructure, or mechanisms, were unprepared for the increasing scale of production under trade liberalization. In some cases, environmental policy was neglected in the wake of trade liberalization; in other cases, NAFTA's measures for investment protection, such as Chapter 11, and measures against non-tariff trade barriers, threatened to discourage more vigorous environmental policy. The most serious overall increases in pollution due to NAFTA were found in the base metals sector, the Mexican petroleum sector, and the transportation equipment sector in the United States and Mexico, but not in Canada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTA#Environment

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With funding support from The Heinz Endowments, the event was designed to help the community of early care and education providers, government officials and other specialists learn how to effectively understand the latest early brain development research and apply this evidence-based information to their everyday practice and policy-making decisions.
Learn more at www.cmu.edu/brainhub.

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Jairam Ramesh: “Does Environmental Regulation in India Need Reform?”

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